4. On a dark, wintry night, catch a two-for-one showing of Woody Allen’s A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy and Another Woman (perhaps his most Bergman-like offering) at Film Forum. Come back the next evening for Manhattan.

5.A play that only a young, desperate serial renter could truly appreciate, The Sublet Experiment is a romantic comedy that takes place in a new apartment every weekend. Tonight it’s Williamsburg. Next week, the Upper East Side.

6. Sleeping Beauty kicks off a centennial salute to New York City Ballet co- founder Lincoln Kirstein.

17. Some call Andrew Bird a cross between Beck and Itzhak Perlman. He and John Southworth (who calls his own music “Appalachian cabaret”) play the Bowery Ballroom.

18. Doug Aitken’s first large-scale public artwork in New York lights up MoMA’s exterior walls with continuous film sequences featuring Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton. In other movie news: the first day of Sundance.

19. Goodness gracious! Jerry Lee Lewis is live at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill.

20. Terence Koh is known for his “queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities,” so what does he have in store for his first American solo museum show—in the Whitney’s lobby?

21. Sayonara! Four of Japan’s top modern dance companies end their weeklong run at the Joyce.

22. Jamie Foxx plays the Garden. But is Jamie Foxx the musician really as good as Jamie Foxx the Ray Charles impersonator?

3. David Byrne, who teamed with Fatboy Slim to spin the Imelda Marcos saga into a multimedia song cycle, performs Here Lies Love at Carnegie Hall.

4.Maybe Judith Regan would like a ticket? The Theatre for a New Audience stages Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice and Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, with F. Murray Abraham playing Shylock and Barabas, the most vilified Jewish characters of all time.

Photo: Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York

5 Tina Turner, Diddy, and ultrafemme designer Tracy Reese: The Museum of the City of New York’s “Black Style Now” runs the gamut from hip-hop to high fashion.

6. Free Press releases Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir of her annus horribilis in Holland, which began with the murder of her collaborator, filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

Photo: Chad Buchanan/Patrick McMullan

7. TiVo part 2 of season 3 of Lost, and go see Justin Timberlake channel Prince and Gumby at MSG.

8. If you can’t swing that Tulum trip this February, settle for a shot of southwestern alt-country when Calexico warms up Lincoln Center.

9. Sondheim’s Follies has weathered good times and bum ones—grab your chance to hear Christine Baranski prove why she’s still here, playing Carlotta Campion in “Encores!” at New York City Center.

10. The Hamburg Ballet’s erotic and austereDeath in Venice comes to BAM.

17. Take advantage of the Jewish Museum’s free Saturdays to see Alex Katz’s paintings of Ada, 40 portraits of his wife and muse done over 50 years of marriage. Ask your partner what he (or she) has done for you lately.

18. Cowboys, Caballeros, and Copland: It’s the Orchestra of St. Luke’s rollicking kid-friendly set at Carnegie Hall.

19. Moody Austin, Texas, post-rockers Explosions in the Sky hype their anticipated new album, All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone, by playing Warsaw.

20. The Asia Society unveils Free Fish, a new work by Okinawan turned New Yorker Yuken Teruya and stages the first solo museum show of the artist’s scissored-paper tableaux and ingenious dioramas.

21. Stay in and watch Criterion’s new DVD, 49th Parallel, the World War II propaganda thriller with the kind of topflight talent even Altman might have had trouble wrangling: Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, and Leslie Howard.

22. Jefferson Mays, Boyd Gaines, and Hugh Dancy bring their spectacular London revival of Journey’s End, a World War I trench-friendship drama, to the Belasco. Will it be this year’s History Boys?